National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is officially over, and I’ve never been happier to see Dec. 1 pop up on my calendar. November – especially the last week – has been hell. But today, I can officially call myself a “novelist” because with nearly 13,000 others, we reached the 50,000 word count by midnight yesterday. The beginning of this crazy writing marathon started out with optimism and hope. The goal seemed relatively easy: Write......

If you watched the NY Marathon, you'd have seen Lance Armstrong, who can scoot his bicycle up the French Alps, nearly die trying to run 26 miles. He had a team of people giving him fluids and advice, he had all the best trainers, he had astrologers, he had memories of Sheryl Crown and Ivanka Trump dancing through his head, and he still nearly passed out. Writing 1,666 words a day wont kill you,......

By now it's obvious to everyone that LAist has no business writing a novel. We actually have a job that requires us to write. But we said we'd do it, and far as we can tell there's no other city based blog participating in National Novel Writing Month. Clearly they're smarter for it. When you write there's always voices in your head telling you what an idiot you are. Usually a few shots of......

LAist doesn't recommend that you actually read any of this novel thats being written on this site. It's not very good. It doesn't know what it is. It doesn't know where it's going. It doesn't appreciate all of its secrets being revealed. It doesn't appreciate the time it takes to do it. But there is a month named after it. And what the hell else are we gonna do from 3 to 4:30am every......

It's hard to tell the tone of comments. Sometimes someone will say something and you'll be all "fuck that guy." And then you'll read it a different way and you'll be all, "Oh he was being nice." Someone in the comments said that only I would waste my time at writing a bad novel during write a bad novel month. At first I took offense to it. Words like "waste" will do that to......

It's National Novel Writing Month, so LAist is writing a novel. like KFed's "music", the rule is you cant worry about it being good, it just needs to be written down by you, during this month. frankly i cant believe that day two was so much easier than day one, but still i procrastinated a lot because i didnt know what i was going to write and now that its over i dont know......

Today marks the start of National Novel Writing Month, affectionately called "nanowrimo" by the tens of thousands of its participants. Now in its 8th year, the month's premise is simple, really: Write 50,000 words in 30 days and earn the right to call yourself a novelist. This fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach to writing forces novelists to get the words down and out, instead of stressing about little things like symmetry and syntax. Gone is the luxury......